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81 - Dr. Glenna Matthews, Thomas Starr King and the Civil War
Glenna Matthews received her Ph.D. from Stanford University. Among her major publications are “Just a Housewife”: The Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America,...
80 - An Overview of California and the Civil War
In this episode, we review the basic series of events and context of California's relationship to and involvement with the US Civil War in...
79 - Tom Chaffin, Author of Pathfinder: John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
Tom Chaffin was born and grew up in Atlanta and spent his early professional years in journalism, living in, among other places, Savannah, New...
78 - Dr. Tamara Venit Shelton, Author of Squatter's Republic and Herbs and Roots
Tamara Venit Shelton is associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College and author of Herbs and Roots: A History of Chinese Doctors in...
77 - Galen Clark, Part III
In this final episode on the Guardian of Yosemite, we look at the end of Clark's life and his legacy.
76 - Dr. Ben Madley, Author of An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873
Today, we have Dr. Ben Madley on the show. Benjamin Madley is a historian of Native America, the United States, and colonialism in world...